Customer Testimonial

“Part of my role as a PA at Man Investments is the registering of domain names and their renewal globally. We own over 500 domain names and deal with many registrant companies so I do have a lot of experience in this field. Right from the start of .eu the European Domain Name Centre have been extremely helpful, I had no experience of their system, the sunrise period and the following steps to take to register new .eu and subsequently .Asia. Christopher especially talked me through it all and helped with any queries and has continued to be helpful and friendly. I have nothing but good things to say about them in comparison to some of my other domain name registrants. ”

Davina Ramsay
Man Group PLC

FAQ Quick Answers

How do I change owner details for a domain?

Go to Edit domains in your client account. Here you can submit the domain and the new contact details. Most registrant updates are free of charge and will be initiated immediately.

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"Which legal rights do I have to get a registered domain name?"

Why your trademark is a plastic sword on the Internet

(23/11/2010 12:08 pm)

Historically, registering a trademark gave you the right to "prevent an offending use that creates consumer confusion". Those were the old days in the physical world. On the Internet trademark holders use a plastic sword against domain pirates and other spoilers.

How to protect your brand against typosquatting

(17/11/2010 11:14 am)

A new study from FairWinds Partners reported that the companies owning the 250 most trafficked websites are losing over 448 million impressions a year through domains that are misspelled. These potential visitors are led to typosquatters´ websites instead, and it is a lucrative business estimated around USD 350 millions per year. Not only top traffic sites are under fire. Most brands are experiencing abuse of their brand through typosquatting.

Dallascowboys.com - How to fumble a domain renewal

(11/11/2010 12:29 pm)

According to the Dallas News, someone from the US football team Dallas Cowboys "apparently forgot to renew its registration on the dallascowboys.com domain and the site was pulled Sunday night, replaced with a generic page indicating the address was available for purchase from Network Solutions LLC." It seems that the contact email for the domain name was the owner´s son Jerry Jones Jr, so it is a question whether heads will roll.

The Essential Question To Ask Yourself About Brand Protection

(09/11/2010 11:01 am)

I´m sure you agree with me that your brand is your most valuable asset. Apart from registering your trademarks, it´s important to register the matching domain names. But which domain names should you register? The single, most important question to ask yourself about how to protect your brand is the following:

Stay Ahead of the Greedy Domain Pirates Forever

(29/10/2010 11:45 am)

"A son of a !@%$#%@ has registered the .FR domain name matching our company name", as one of our clients mildly put it. Imagine if you could stay ahead of the pack of domain pirates EVERY time a new domain extension is launched. That´s why we introduce the Express Brand Protector.

Adwords display URL domain tip

(15/09/2010 1:44 pm)

Here´s a tip for your Google Adwords campaign, which can give you the upper hand against the fierce competition. Keyword-rich domain names used as the display URL in your Google Adwords can vastly improve your CTR. (CTR is the Click Through Rate. If 100 searchers see your ad and 1 clicks, then the CTR is 1%)

Will .co domains be big?

(20/07/2010 3:31 pm)

Another top level domain launch and once again the question: Will .CO domains be big? We have had numerous domain launches the last years and more are yet to come. .asia, .tel, .mobi, .rf etc. However I believe that the .co domain launch is special.

There´s a story behind. Back in 1995 there were talks whether .com or .co should be launched as the commercial main top level domain. Why .com instead of .co? .co is even one character less and just as easy to remember. After the initial rejection, the idea behind .co stuck however, and many country hostmasters introduced later their top level domain with .co. To name a few; co.uk, co.in, co.hu etc. Anyway, justice for all, now 15 years later .co is finally launched for the general public on 20th July 2010.

Lost contact to Buydomains.dk?

(29/06/2010 10:37 am)

Have you lost contact to Buydomains.dk? Or another dubious domain registrar? Here we´ll explain you how to get back control of your domains.

As in any business there are trusted, well-managed companies and then there are companies who are less ethical. As entry barriers are relatively low to start up in the domain registration business,we have our share of rotten apples. This is not to say that Buydomains.dk fall into this category, however many of their clients are simply not able to get hold of their domains and transfer them to another domain registrar.

What You Must Know regarding Global Domain Registrations

(16/04/2010 1:05 pm)

More than once we have heard this regret from companies; "If We had just registered our Global Domain Names before our brand got known." When your brand is well known, surely opportunistic cybersquatters will register your rightful domains. Therefore register your global domain names in time, and do it before any trademark application, as applications are made public and are widely used as "inspiration" for cybersquatters.

THE EPP CODE - How to get a domain name's epp Code

(16/04/2010 10:09 am)

The EPP code is an authorization code to allow domain transfers. It protects your rights as a domain owner against any unathorized transfer requests. EPP codes are required when transferring most domain names: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .us and several country code domains. It is not possible to initiate a domain name transfer for these domains without an EPP domain code.

Complete list of idn domains

(08/03/2010 2:54 pm)

This is the complete list of idn domains. IDN stands for Internationalized Domain Names, and are domains which can include local characters, which are not part of the English alphabet. For instance æ,ø and å for .dk. You can register idn domains using the domain search box below.

Driving traffic with domain names

Global brands fail to get their .EU domains

(17/12/2009 1:21 pm)

The dust has settled after EURid's launch of IDN (Internationalized domain names - other characters than a-z) last Thursday Dec 10. 280 new characters were introduced such as Cyrillic characters and local Spanish, French and German characters.

The domains checker just got better...

(14/12/2009 6:27 am)

It´s already one of it's kind, but the European Domain Centre domains checker just got better.... As always you have the possibility to make a domain name checking in ALL countries. Enter your domain in the domains checker and select All domains, and you will see availability for +275 top level domains worldwide. In order to see if you fulfill local requirements, make sure to read the info box next to each domain.

Will .中国 be bigger than .cn?

(13/11/2009 12:55 pm)

Oh yes! .中国 (.China) is expected to be the new Chinese top level domain solely consisting of Chinese characters. Until now China has had to settle for .cn, which to the typical Chinese Internet user is incomprehensible characters.

5 tips to boost your company´s domain name management

(26/10/2009 4:04 pm)

If you are responsible for your company´s domain management then here are 5 tips to avoid sleepless nights by managing your domain names optimally. Even if you only have time to deal with a couple of the tasks below then do them. (The recommendations are based on our 2008 study of corporate domain management. See PR release for Domain management)

What you need to consider before transferring a domain

(05/06/2009 12:17 pm)

There is one decisive factor when transferring domains to another registrar. You need to make sure that the registrar offers the same top level domains that you wish to transfer. Secondly, think about the future domain registrations. Is Slovenia part of your market, and your registrar does not offer a .si doman then you are back to square one. Generally the reason for transferring domains is to make life easier, so you should not start all over again having to find a new registrar offering the Slovenian domain.

What to know before moving domains

(04/06/2009 3:59 pm)

There are two common scenarios for moving domains. In the following it is explained which factors are important when moving domains.

The 1st question to ask is where should I move my domains? If you have domains with 5 registrars and one of them is better than the rest, then move the domains to the best one. How many supermarkets do you go to when shopping? Right!

6 steps to local landing page optimization

(22/05/2009 10:45 pm)

This article is especially directed towards creating landing pages directed at a local country. The following landing page optimization basics will rank you in Google. Consider first if the landing page should be part of your web site or a stand alone landing page. If it is a stand alone landing page, then make sure to add it to the search engines (Google, Yahoo). In another article I described the importance of securing local keyword domains to attract local web traffic.

Local keyword domains to improve your Google ranking - how to get web traffic with local country domains

(12/05/2009 2:24 pm)

There is no doubt that a company´s most important marketing tool today is the web site. To be found on the search engines is therefore more crucial than ever, and each trick (within the rules!) counts in order to be found. There are several factors influencing the search engine ranking (meta tags, title tags, links building, age of primary domain, keywords in text etc.). However another value adding factor is keyword domains.

Google ranking: Why you should use .nl for your Dutch language web site

(22/04/2009 1:39 pm)

It is a proven fact that Google gives importance in their ranking when a web site is using a local country domain. Let´s say that you have a Dutch language version of your web site then a .nl domain is much stronger for search engine optimization than www.yourcompany.com/nl. The ccTLDs (.de, .nl, .co.uk,.es etc) will provide geo-targeted and often exclusive traffic . A user based in the Netherlands searching on Google.nl will find you easier, than if you only had the .com version.

Check your WHOIS email !

(26/02/2009 11:43 am)

Ask yourself this question: Will the registrant email you use for domain registrations exist even if you l were not in the company anymore? The golden rule is to ensure that the contact email is not dependent on a specific employee. It is rare that an employee stays with a company forever, so the WHOIS (official registrant data) contact email has to outlive any person. You can always update your admin or billing contact email with us with a click, but the WHOIS email is not so easy to change.

Need to see which domain names are registered by your company?

(04/12/2008 1:13 pm)

"How can we find all domain names registered by our company?" I get that question quite a lot. Apart from letting us handle the assignment you can also read through the following. It will explain how to find domain owner details. The domain owner lookup in the link below will give you the domain registrant details and hopefully you will find your compan:

I have earlier recommended 5 steps to optimize your domain portfolio. In the following I will elaborate on the 1st step.

Abusing Fiat´s brand

(31/10/2008 4:39 pm)

Based on the 10 most common terms used for .com brand abuse we have looked at the case of Fiat the Italian car manufacturer. For such a strong brand in the car industry it was expected that their IP rights are well protected. The reality appears to be different for their .com domains. The fact is that they are missing out on valuable web traffic which is being directed to pay per click (PPC) sites linking mostly to their competition. Secondly, anyone expecting to visit the web site of Fiat is only one click away from "Congratulations, you are the one millionth visitor" pop ups - not great brand protection. This is a prime example of cybersquatting.